Re: ld problems

[Kirth <kirth@hole.org>]

sorry, i wasnt using any ms dll's, what i meant was i tried the cygnus port
AND a copy of mysqlclient library taken off my linux box....

it finds the lib fine now, but doesnt seem to know whats in it


* Earnie Boyd (earnie_boyd@yahoo.com) [000322 18:06]:
> --- Kirth <kirth@hole.org> wrote:
> > ahh right that fixed it, mind you im not getting undefined reference's
> > to thinks like mysql_init .. theres are definitly part of the mysqlclient
> > lib. I had thought to compilie mysql myself, however it gives a few hundred
> > errors, so that was no go.
> > 
> 
> Hmm... I believe I remember a post that mysql had been ported to Cygwin. Check
> the archives and the ported packages information on the Cygwin pages at
> sourceware.cygnus.com.
> 
> > Any suggestions ? ive tried the library that comes with mysql for windows,
> > the one from the extra mysqlclients package, and even copying across
> > my linux library, all give roughly the same undefined reference's.
> > 
> 
> I wasn't aware that you were using a M$ built library.  Anders Norlander has a
> program he's called pexports which is able to read a dll if you have the
> headers and create a def file so that you can create an import library.  You
> can find pexports at his URL of
> http://www.acc.umu.se/~anorland/gnu-win32/index.html .
> 
> The caveat to this is that the Non-Cygwin mysql.dll won't understand the Cygwin
> mounted paths.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Earnie.
> 
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